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Be it known that I, THOMAS C. MICHENnn, oi' the city nn'il county or"St. Louis, :1nd Stute et Missouri. here invented a. new nstrument forSetting Needles in Sewing Machines; end'l do hereby declare thatthevfollowing is a 'Full und clear description thereof, reference beinghud tn the accompanying drawings, :ind to the letters el' referencemarked thereon. I

The nature of this invention consists in the formation of u holder for'the needle7 soincwhnt in the shape of the letter E, the vertieel erm ofwhich is adjustable ns to length, and the horizontal arms nre made -nithdouble Spring ends, so as to embrace the needle between them, previousto its insertion into the mee-hina. A snniil steel peint between the twolower ends entersthe eye of the needle, :1nd thus fixes it to its properrelative positien te the holder, preparatory to its insertion into themachine.

lFigure Le? the draining-, is n side elevation of the settinginstrument, 2irently enlarged for the purpose el illustration.

Figure is e. horizontal section of the lower erin, also enlarged for asimilar reasdn. I:llie vertical arni A A is made in two pieces, halvedtogether, and secured in place hy ineens et' n screw, a, which passesthrough e. slet in the piece A, and screws into the piece A. By thisari-:ingeluent of the vertical A erm itinny be lengthened or s' :tenedso as to lit any setting mnehinc. At the upper end of the :trui A thereis aprqjeeting arm, B, per endieulur to it, :intl n. siinilur)Vn'ojeeting erin, B', nt the bottoni` lneh of the .arms B B is mede oftiro thin sp as eletti-ly shown in lig.. 2, and emrh pnir of thesesprings is coupled tegmetl er near their outer ends by i. ns of n rivet,b, or n. set thumb-screw 'night he used in lieuv thercol'. v Between thetwo springs forming the lower erin B there is a sharp-pointed piece,inserted. "he pointed end of this picee projects n short distance (g ntthe diameter of the needle) into the needle-sent, and the forum-tion ofthe ende of the spring pieces, of which. il und B are formed, is such aste drew thencedle C on to this point. This construction ef the outerends of ll B is clearlyr shown in lig. 2, wherein it is shown that theneedlclsent is about Oneeighth ot' :m'ilreh (more less) from theen'ds ofthe said :ti-ins.v 'lhe needle C is to he placed in this instrument byinserting its peint nrscen spring ends of the erm ll, and then pushingit down 4through the arm E slowly until the eye of the needle is caughtand stepped by the piece c passing into it. Care should be tellen ininserting the needle inte the erm B to have the eye et' the needledirected toward the peint chin order thnt it may pnssinto the eje, whenr`he saine shall here arrived opposite the said point. As it is neces-.sery to here the eye of the needle pincel in n certain relativedirection while in the machine, this arrangement will be fonndyerybeneficial, as the adjustment of the needle to the setting instrumenteen he much more readily made out oi' the machine than in it, und thenwhen the needleisplaced in the machine it will he ensy to turn thesetting instrument in the required direction7 und the adjustment will hecomplete. By haring the arms A A adjust-able es to length, as 31""already been described, the top edge of the erm l muy he made to heer a.certain fixed relative diste-nce i the topend of the needle C,.whieh may.then he inserted into the machine until the arm B strikes it, and theproper distance of the eye of the needle from thenrm of the machine canbe readily Eyed.

Hering described my invention, what l claim iii- The combination of theop g arms B B with theA adjustable :L1-m A and the pointed needle fluidec, al?, arranged in the inanner and for the purpose described.

THOFL C. MlGHENllI..

